Large Marj

All swaddled up

Another flattering picture of me. Right before heading into surgery.

1st bath while I was in recovery.
The girls and little brother

Jessica made me this sign. It's just like the signs I made for Ben and Jane.

He was an early smiler!

So peaceful.

My life has totally changed since my last update. Now that Steven is here, that's pretty much what I do. Nurse, change diaper, scurry around and get things done while he is sleeping. Which he does not do a lot of during the day. He does sleep most of the night though, so I can't complain. He is 5 weeks old already. He is so cute, well I think so. I am looking forward to nice weather so I can take him outside more. It's still pretty cold and he doesn't really enjoy it much. We did take a short stroller ride, but his hat kept slipping over his eyes. We let Wren come too. He just annoyed the dogs and climbed all over Dad's tractor. He is so naughty! I am going to add some pictures so enjoy! Naughty Wren!
His hat kept falling

He loves to snuggle with Grandma!

He is such a happy boy.

Sparky and Chance getting Frisky
Cute little Drifter

Scott getting ice out of the water tubs

Fat Baby

Our Barn
Snow!

The barn

The Beginning of our lights

Here is a quick update. It is November 23rd, I am trying to get ready for Christmas. It snowed like crazy here. Enjoy the pictures!!!

Time for Fall!!!

I couldn't wait, so I put up some fall decor. I haven't put up anything Halloweenie yet, but I will in a few weeks. If you look close you can see some little pumpkins through the window. I have my favorite cinnamon pinecones, and my fall flower arrangements spread around the house. I added the lighted garland just yesterday. I was looking for some nice fall garden lights, but couldn't find anything I liked. I found the garland at Joanne's fabrics and added the lights. It's been raining and very cozy. Not cold enough to start a fire, but I am sure that will be coming soon. Don't forget to look further down on the blog. I posted a bunch of pictures.

First Day of School

Kylee, Mali and Bailey. Rachel was cool and rode the bus.
Kylee and Rachel

Our Camp

This little guy kept sneaking in and steeling our dog food

Camping

Macie was a real chipmunk hunter
Scott and Shadow Fishing

UUGH.

Castrating Time
Annie

Jane

It's a boy! We are very excited. I am not very good at interpreting ultra sound pictures so I just picked one that was obvious.

We also went fishing at Skate Creek on Sunday. We caught some pretty good fish. Then we came home played a family softball game, and had pizza to celebrate the end of the haying season. It was a good day.

Arlo White, the voice of the Sounders

Chet's Moment

Sounders!!

Scott and Chet with the coach and owner
Scott with Coach Sigi
Qwest Field

Another one of Scott's Levesque Pics???

Heroes Fundraising Gala

Taylor Graham, Brad Evans, Roger Levesque
One of the creepy pictures Scott took of Levesque

Here we are with Levesque

Ready to go!

Saturday night we were invited to go to the Heroes Fundraising Gala at Qwest Field. It was really fun. Chet was nominated as Recreational Girls Coach of the Year. He didn't win, but he was the District 7 Recreational Girls Coach of the year, which is really cool. We arrived there at the beginning of Cocktail Hour. While we were checking in, one of our favorite players came into start signing autographs. Roger Levesque! He was really cool. We took a picture of him, and he signed an autograph for all 4 girls, for me, Scott, and Chet. We also got autographs from Brad Evans, Taylor Graham, and the Coach Sigi Schmidt. It was really cool. Scott was all red faced and giggles. We had to take the camera away from him for a while. I think he may have started creeping the players out a little. There was a silent auction, but we didn't bid on anything....it got pretty expensive. After cocktail hour, which I did not partake of, we went in to have dinner. It started with a really good salad, then we had chicken and mash pototoes!! Dessert was a blackberry cobbler type thing. The awards started and it was really neat to hear Chet's name announced and his picture up on the big screen. He got the biggest cheer out of everyone..thanks to our table. We had alot of fun.